Kimono



NOV. 1, 1932. FAUTRAD 1,885,422

KIMONO Filed March 2 1932 BY "2 j 7 ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 1, 1932 PATENT OFFICE GERKAINE FAUTRAD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

KIMONO Application filed March 2,

This invention relates to improvements in kimonos.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a kimono which will provide a relatively wide lower portion or skirt adapted to encircle the lower portion of the body and fastenable about the waist of the wearer, and upper thorax-covering portion comprising a relatively narrow bosom portion connected to and preferably formed integrally with the upper end of the bosom portion and adapted to be passed over the head and neck to loosely drape from the shoulders the back, upper arms and ribs of the wearer, said thorax-covering portion having an aperture through which the head and neck project to retain the bosom portion in position and to drape the cape portion to provide a back for the garment which will-loosely cover the back, shoulders and sides of the wearer.

With these and other objects in View, the invention comprises the combination of members and arrangement of parts so combined as to co-act and cooperate with each other in the performance of the functions and the accomplishment of the results herein contemplated and comprises in one of its adaptions the species or preferred form illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a kimono embodying my invention when laid out in flat condition; v

Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of my kimono on a wearer;

Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 4 is a section of the garment in wearing position, the section being taken just at the waist line Fig. 5 is a rear elevation showing the cape broken away.

Referring now to the drawing which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, 1 (Fig. 1) illustrates my kimono laid out in flat position, 2 indicates the skirt portion of said 'kimono, and 3 designates the thorax-covering portion of the garment. In the embodiment shown, the thorax-covering portion is formed in one piece with the skirt portion and is connected at its lower end 4 with the top skirt portion 2 intermediate the 1932. Serial No. 596,179.

marginal side edges 2-2' thereof, said thorax-covering portion comprising a relatively narrow part extending from the middleof the top of the skirt portion upwardly and outwardly to provide a bosom portion 5 and a cape portion 6 with a centrally located aper- -ture 7 adapted to permit the projection of from the shoulders of the wearer about the back, upper arms and ribs of the wearer, it being understood that the cape will provide the back of the garment and will cover the back, arms and ribs or sides of the wearer.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention shown, the skirt portion 2 is wide enough to permit complete encircling or wrapping of the lower portion of the body from the waist down and, as shown, is notched or tucked at 2a to permit the waist encircling portions 2?) to conform closely with the figure of the wearer, and I also preferably provide the ends of the Waist portion 2?) with ribbons or straps 8, 8, one of which is adapted to encircle'the waist portion on the outside and the other of which, being attached to the inwardly folded edge, will be passed through a vertical slit 9 in the waist portion 4.

In dressing the upper portion is thrown over the head and one edge of the skirt portion is folded, in back, over the other and, as shown, the right-hand edge portion is folded beneath the left-hand edge portion and the strap 8 is passed through the slit 9 and then the ends of the straps are brought together at the front of the waist portion and tied as shown at 10.

It will be seen, particularly from Figs. 2 and 3, that the portion 5 of the garment will closely cover both the bosom or breasts as well as the lower rib and back portion of the wearer over the latter of which the garment is folded while the cape portion will form the back of the garment and drape itself loosely over the upper arms and back of the wearer and the sides or ribs and underarms.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made ithout departing from the scope thereof; it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having described my invention, I claim A kimono embodying, in combination, a skirt portion comprising a relatively wide piece of fabric having lateral extensions adapted to be overlapped at the back of the lower portion of the body of the wearer and wrapped around said lower portion of the body to form a complete skirt, a thoraxcovering portion having a neck-aperture of sufiicient area for the passage of the head and neck of the wearer, and a connecting portion having a relatively wide base portion connected with the skirt portion and a gradually reduced upper portion covering the breast, a portion of the ribs and crossing at the back of the wearer and having edges inclining from said wide base connection toward said head and neck aperture whereby the wrapping of the skirt portion around the lower portion of the body also causes a t ghtening of the connecting portion about the breastand ribs of the wearer and permits a ClOSe fitting of the garment about the upper portion of the body and the neck of the wearer.

In witness whereof, I have signed my name to the foregoing speoificatlon. GERMAINE FAUTRAD. 

